Technical Advisory Board (TAB)

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board

The Technical Advisory Board (TAB) provides the Linux kernel community a direct voice into The Linux Foundation’s activities and fosters bi-directional interaction with application developers, end users, and Linux companies.

Activities

In this, our first meeting of 2015, the TAB had further discussions about our electoral process and talked about formalizing the working relationship between the Linux Foundation and the Linux Plumbers Planning Committee.

This month the TAB discussed the last stretch of planning for the Linux Plumbers conference later in the month, organizing a new planning committee for the Plumbers conference next year in Seatle, and heard some updates from the UEFI, CII and testing activity.

In this meeting we welcomed the new TAB members elected in August while saying thank you to those finishing their terms. Plus, we elected a new chair, discussed the TAB electoral process and heard updates about the Linux Plumbers conference, Kernel Testing and the Critical Infrastructure Initiative.

On Thursday, Sept. 4th we held our first meeting since the TAB elections at KernelSummit and LinuxCon last month. As is our custom, this meetingincluded both incoming and outgoing members.

First of all, I want to say a big thank you to our outgoing members,James Bottomley, Jesse Barnes and Ric Wheeler, who have all servedfaithfully and done a great job representing our community. Iespecially want to thank James who has served as the TAB chair since

The Samsung 355E, like all post production UEFI systems has no EFI shell, so if you want to use shell commands, you'll have to boot to a shell using a USB stick.

To activate the UEFI menus, press F2 on power on or subsequent reboot. The system only responds to this for an instant, but if you're successful, you'll see a "Please Wait" message at the bottom right.

The intel Tunnel Mountain UEFI secure boot test box is fairly easy to get to the boot menu (it's also easy if you don't follow this, because it will drop into a UEFI shell unlike almost any other secure boot system on the market).

To get the UEFI menu, power the system on and press ESC after the TianoCore logo appears on the screen. Once in the Boot menu, select 'Device Manager' and then 'Secure Boot Configuration'.

This page describes how to get systems into and out of UEFI setup mode for the purposes either of installing a bootloader hash, or for taking control of all of the keys. For more details of how UEFI secure boot works and for tools for creating and manipulating keys, see